Amazon has partnered with Italian chain bookseller Giunti al Punto.
The chain will sell Amazon’s Kindle in its 170 stores and will launch an ‘Amazon-supported’ retail website later this year.
Amazon and Waterstones in the UK reached a similar affiliate agreement in 2012.
The model of e-reader companies partnering with bookshops is already popular in Italy, where Kobo is partnered with the Mondadori group, which owns 350 bookshops.